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BER vs SNR from Channel Impulse Response in MATLAB


In this MATLAB code it is described how to calculate 'BER vs SNR' and 'SER vs SNR' from the Channel Impulse Response (CIR). 

SER =  Symbol error rate

For a typical communication system, if we transmit the signal x[n], then received signal will be,

y[n] = h[n]*x[n]  + noise

Where, h[n] is channel impulse response and '*' indicates convolution operation


MATLAB Code

clc;
clear all;
close all;

% Channel Impulse Response (CIR)
channel_response = [0.85]; % Example channel impulse response coefficients
%channel_response = [0.8, 0.1];
% Modulation parameters
modulation_order = 4; % QPSK modulation
num_symbols = 1000; % Number of symbols to transmit
num_bits = 1000*log2(modulation_order);

% Signal generation
tx_symbols = randi([0, modulation_order-1], 1, num_symbols);
tx_signal = qammod(tx_symbols, modulation_order);

% Channel simulation
rx_signal = conv(tx_signal, channel_response);

% Add AWGN (Additive White Gaussian Noise)
snr_dB = 0:2:20;
ber = zeros(size(snr_dB));

for i = 1:length(snr_dB)
noise_power = 10^(-snr_dB(i)/10);
rx_noisy_signal = rx_signal + sqrt(noise_power) * randn(size(rx_signal));

% Receiver processing
rx_symbols = qamdemod(rx_noisy_signal, modulation_order);

% BER calculation
a = reshape(de2bi(rx_symbols(1:num_symbols)),[1,num_bits]);
b = reshape(de2bi(tx_symbols),[1,num_bits]);

ber(i) = sum(a ~= b) / num_bits;
ser(i) = sum(rx_symbols(1:1000) ~= tx_symbols) / num_symbols;
end

% Plot BER vs. SNR curve
figure(1);
semilogy(snr_dB, ber, 'o-');
xlabel('SNR (dB)');
ylabel('Bit Error Rate (BER)');
title('BER vs. SNR');

grid on;

% Plot BER vs. SNR curve
figure(2);
semilogy(snr_dB, ser, 'o-');
xlabel('SNR (dB)');
ylabel('Symbol Error Rate (BER)');
title('SER vs. SNR');

grid on;

Output

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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